Hate Crimes

A columnist for this paper, who is not amused by the president's party, rhetoric or style of governance, recently blamed the recent rise in reported hate crimes on the president. The FBI reported a 17 percent rise in 2017. What was not explained is how crime statistics are gathered.

Crime reporting to the FBI is a voluntary system and currently some 18,000 municipal, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies report crimes, but not all crimes. Of these 18,000 agencies, approximately 3,000 reported hate crimes in 2017. That number included an increase of 1,000 agencies compared to 2016. In other words, the increase could be attributed to the increased number of reporting...

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